Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.
Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
